But the British politician resoundingly re-elected leader of the opposition Labour Party on Saturday is riding the same wave of anti-centrist sentiment that’s propelling the brash U.S. Republican presidential candidate.
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Corbyn captured nearly 62 percent of the vote, a slight increase over last year’s win, while Smith attracted just over 38 percent of the votes.
Corbyn urged unity of his party following the win, saying, “We have much more in common than that which divides us”, as he vowed to “do everything I can to repay trust and the support, to bring our party together” and to “win power to deliver real change”.
While it has been an extremely long year of being beleaguered by members of his own party and in-fighting, after Jeremy Corbyn’s second win today he called upon the Labour Party to “respect the democratic choice that’s been made”.
At one point, more than 40 women Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn demanding he do more to tackle the “disgusting and totally unacceptable” abuse by his supporters. But opinion polls regularly indicate that if an election were held tomorrow, Labour under Corbyn would suffer a historic defeat in the country as a whole.
Corbyn, a long-time back-bench lawmaker, was elected a year ago to lead Labour, which governed between 1997 and 2010 but has lost two successive general elections to the Conservatives.
The fall-out between Corbyn and the majority of his MPs erupted following the decision by Britons in the June 23 referendum to leave the European Union. Jeremy has not only won the Labour Party leadership again, but he has also managed to significantly increase his number of votes over the past year.
“We are particularly interested in #LabourLeaks information about strategising at the highest levels of the Labour Party and its National Executive Committee”.
Beyond that a battle lies ahead over future policy and whether the party can mount a serious challenge for power. But there might be others that say, “I want to do a particular role”.
Corbyn was unveiled as the victor in Liverpool where the party is preparing to hold its annual conference.
“He is nothing other than a complete and utter disaster for the Labour Party”, McTernan said. “Things may fall a bit quieter for a while after this leadership contest, but in the end things will not be resolved while Corbyn is leader”.
Several in the party who once supported his candidacy as a chance to harness a growing disaffection for “establishment politics” across Europe now rue the day they backed him.
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“What they are looking for is an awayday to look at all those issues, then consulting the party and then we will probably have a rules conference if we need to change those positions”. He was re-elected on September 23 with an even larger majority of nearly 62% to allow him to continue to lead the rapidly growing Opposition party, which now has more than 600,000 members. With plans to borrow billions of pounds, raise taxes and weaken our defences, Labour can not build a country that works for everyone – and it would be families across Britain that would pay the price.
